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pinch-guts

pinch-guts is the plural of pinch-gut.

Meaning of pinch-gut

Noun

pinch-gut (plural pinch-guts)

  1. (obsolete) A miser; especially someone parsimonious with food.
    • Por. We are my Lady Pinch-guts men, Sir.
      Co. Her Men? No, he Mice. We live upon crums,^([sic]) and a good Cat would run away with us all.
      […]
      L. W. I wonder at it; my Lords humour is very oppoſite to hers, he loves Grandeur.
      Co. So does ſhe, Sir, but hates to pat for't. She will ha' Servants for a...1690, John Crowne, “Lady Pinch-guts Houſe”, in The English Frier, act 2, scene 1, page 9
    Synonyms:
    pinch-back, pinch-belly, pinch-commons, pinch-crust, pinchfist, pinchpenny, pinch-plum

Questions about pinch-guts

What is pinch-guts the plural of?
Pinch-guts is the plural of pinch-gut.

Words near pinch-guts in the dictionary

  1. pinch-belly
  2. pinch-belly vengeance
  3. pinch-commons
  4. pinch-fisted
  5. pinch-gut
  6. pinch-guts
  7. pinch-hit
  8. pinch-hits
  9. pinch-hitter
  10. pinch-hitters
  11. pinch-hitting

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